Chapter 895: Vampires

After those bumps walked closer and closer, the father and son also saw their true faces, and it was really a group of basking sharks.

Ye Fu's heart, which hadn't been down for long, was raised high again.

"Why did so many come towards us suddenly?"

"The same kind is here, shouldn't they gather together? I'll go to the stern to pull the net, it will be pulled up soon, and after pulling it up, we will go back."

Ye Fu nodded and followed him to the stern to pull the net.

Can only be like this. Anyway, the basking sharks seen before couldn't do anything to them, just following quietly.

Ye Fu also tends to what Dongzi said. Although these basking sharks are huge and have their mouths wide open, they are gentle in nature. Otherwise, they would have attacked the fishing boat long ago.

There are so many more, shouldn't it matter?

Thinking so, his heart was slightly put back a little bit.

However, the father and son's heart was still highly concerned about the group of basking sharks drifting towards them.

Although both said that these basking sharks are very friendly and gentle, when they really approached and met, their hearts were still severely shocked.

Each one is six or seven meters long. Looking at it, there are twenty or thirty bumps. They stick their backs to the water surface, exposing the snout, dorsal fin, and tail fin to the water surface, swimming slowly. Twenty or thirty mouths are all open there, opening their mouths to filter feed.

Ye Fu couldn't help swallowing, and asked again, "Dongzi, are you sure they don't eat people?"

"No... will... just look a bit scary. Do you know why they are called basking sharks? Because they are as gentle as middle-aged women..."

"Are middle-aged women gentle?" Ye Fu issued a soul torture.

Ye Yaodong froze for a moment, "Except for my mother."

The middle-aged women in the village seem to have to be excluded, saying that old age might be better.

However, is this the time to ask this question?

"Dad, you might be better off bringing in older ones like grandmothers."

Ye Fu rolled his eyes at him, "Hurry up and pull the fishing net, let's go back. When we get close to the coast, I guess they won't follow. So many mouths are open there, it looks scary enough. Your Big Cousin and the others are also nearby, why don't they follow them?"

Although those basking sharks looked a bit scary, they hadn't attacked them for so long. This time, they were joked by Ye Yaodong, and he was not as nervous as before.

"Who knows, maybe it was us who met first."

Ye Yaodong also had some itchy heart this time, and wanted to take a camera to take a picture of the scene now.

However, the fishing net hadn't been pulled up, so I had to wait, otherwise his father would be angry.

Both father and son kept staring at the sea surface, looking back and forth. Just when the fishing net was exposed to the water surface and dragged onto the tail slipway by the machine, their hands and feet were more agile than ever, and their strength was also exceptionally large.

However, when the fishing net was just pulled onto the deck, Ye Yaodong found that there were a few different fish in the fishing net, and they were still twisting their bodies.

He hurriedly shouted to his father: "Dad, hurry up and get a bucket, hit a bucket of seawater."

Then quickly untied the fishing net.

"What for?"

"There are a few remoras, and a few lampreys, all alive, still moving, hurry up and hit two buckets of water, raise them first, two buckets, remember."

Ye Fu didn't know all the fish. He knew the remoras he said, but didn't know what the lampreys he said were.

However, looking at his serious expression, based on his trust in him during this period, he also hurriedly turned to hit the water first, and then asked what the lamprey was later.

Ye Yaodong first picked out the remoras that were twisting their bodies, and then scratched out the sea lampreys that were absorbing on the small fish.

There are 5 remoras and 3 sea lampreys. It is possible to have so many in a random drag, which shows that there should be quite a few under the water.

These two kinds of fish must have been attracted by the basking shark, otherwise they couldn't reach here.

Remora doesn't need to be said. It is used to taking a free ride in the sea. Its back has an oval suction cup, often attached to the abdomen of sharks, sea turtles, and even ships, for long-distance travel.

The few remoras he dragged up must have been shaken off from these basking sharks, and then accidentally caught by him.

As for the sea lamprey...

Ye Yaodong looked at a small pile of two different fish stacked together, but was not in a hurry to separate them, and put them into the bucket his father just took.

"Don't take away the miscellaneous fish and separate them?"

"Put them together and test it."

Ye Fu was a bit puzzled, "Test what?"

"Talk about it later, since these remoras are still alive, raise them in the bucket first."

Fortunately, these two kinds of fish are long-shaped and not easy to be crushed, and they are still active after being dragged up.

After separating the two kinds of fish and putting them into the bucket, Ye Yaodong didn't care about other miscellaneous goods in the fishing net and straightened his body.

Ye Fu saw his unfathomable appearance looking at the sea surface, and felt a bit puzzled, "What are you doing? Mysterious? Did you eat shit?"

"Don't look, hurry up and drive the boat back, and shake off these basking sharks first. Those dozens of mouths are open there, and it looks scalp-numbing, like a hole for a coffin."

Ye Yaodong: "..."

His father's description is really appropriate!

That pitch-black mouth is wide open, and it is neat and orderly. Isn't it like the coffin mouth left by those graves on the mountain?

He took out his watch from his pocket and looked at the time. It was only 2 o'clock. It is estimated that it will be 3:30 when he gets home. It is a bit early, but they have earned enough today. Just those few hundred jin of barracuda are enough for them to drag the net for a few days.

"Then you go drive the boat, I'll sort these out."

"Isn't it you?"

"Take turns, it's your turn."

Ye Fu had to cook noodles depressedly first, "Let your wife cook more rice tomorrow, bring the leftover rice to the boat at night, put it on that bucket of ice cubes, and it won't go bad."

If it was just cooking noodles, the father and son wouldn't push it to each other. It was mainly because they had to wash the bowls after cooking and eating. Both of them didn't want to do it, although there were only two sets of bowls and chopsticks and a pot, but they felt it was troublesome.

"That's no different, still have to heat the rice and dishes, still have to cook a pot of seafood, still have to wash the bowls."

"At least you can eat rice."

"Got it."

Ye Yaodong lowered his head and responded casually, but he heard his father exclaim, and then nervously and hurriedly kept calling him.

"Ah ah ah... Dongzi... Dongzi... hurry up, hurry up..."

Hearing his father's abnormal tone, he also became nervous, and his heart was raised.

"What? What happened?"

Just walked over and asked, he also saw the basking shark lying on the sea surface by the boat with its mouth wide open, floating with the fishing boat.

And it's not just one!

I don't know where two more popped out, three connected in a row, looking much longer than their boat, and it was right beside the hull, looking scary at first glance.

Only heard that basking sharks like to bask in the sun lazily. This is the first time I've seen it today.

It is still the era of abundant marine resources. Later, it will be polluted, and it will not be easy to see these marine organisms. ===== CHAPTER 896 =====

It has a type of gland in its throat that allows its oral disc to secrete an anticoagulant, preventing blood from clotting.

In other words, the prey's wound will bleed continuously, giving the sea lamprey more time to find other blood vessels and suck blood.

These basking sharks are massive and thick-skinned; the sea lampreys might not necessarily be able to bite through their bodies, but they still like to chase these big fish because if they happen to find a weak spot, they can have a hearty meal.

For example, both orcas and tiger sharks will hunt basking sharks.

When a basking shark is intact, the sea lampreys can't do anything even if they target it, but there is one basking shark here that just fought a battle with a school of sea wolf fish earlier, and it still has marks from the sea wolves' bites on its body.

Isn't this a perfect opportunity for them to take advantage of its weakness?

When he just hauled up the sea lampreys in the fishing net, he recognized the 7 external gill slits on its body at a glance from the gaps; these are very easy to identify.

They are also each attached to a small fish; it's a good chance to see if they can really suck the blood and flesh dry, and whether the rumors about "ocean vampires" are true.

Ye Yaodong explained these things bit by bit to his father, but Ye Fu listened in a daze, as if he were listening to a fairy tale.

"Such a small fish, just like an eel, can suck a basking shark weighing several tons dry? Are you kidding me?"

He didn't believe a single word of it; isn't this like an ant trying to shake an elephant?

"I'm telling you, and you don't believe me! It's not like just one is going to suck it; we've already netted so many, so there must be plenty in the sea. After all, there are so many basking sharks here, and they are so large; even if just a few hang onto each one, it's enough to make that injured one suffer."

"Besides, didn't I tell you? Their saliva can prevent wounds from healing. Once they attach, the wound will just bleed continuously until it is sucked dry and dies."

"Even if this basking shark weighs several tons, it can't withstand constant bleeding, and with so many 'vampires' on its body, even a god couldn't hold up. Being sucked dry is just a matter of time."

As he spoke, Ye Yaodong forcefully pried the sucked-dry water-valley fish away from the sea lamprey's mouth, showing his father its mouth that hadn't closed yet.

This open, circular mouth really looked like a bottomless tunnel, filled with sharp teeth inside; it was indeed very different from a regular eel.

"Then what are you going to do? Are you planning to wait for it to be sucked dry and pick up the scraps?"

Although Ye Fu still didn't quite believe that such a small fish could suck a basking shark weighing several tons dry, seeing that Dongzi spoke as if it were true, he could only assume it was true for now.

"I'm not that stupid. I just wanted to see if the legend of the sea lamprey is true. Who knows how long it would take for them to suck such a big basking shark dry."

It would be a pity if such a big basking shark were sucked dry, but he couldn't stop it, and he really did like picking up scraps.

If it's destined to be sucked dry, it might as well be picked up by him, but who knows when it will be bitten to death.

He couldn't just wait here forever to see when it dies; with such a massive physique, he couldn't drag it back even if it were dead.

Moreover, at this moment, that injured basking shark was still swimming behind the fishing boat with its mouth open, looking completely normal.

If he hadn't recognized these sea lampreys, he probably wouldn't have thought of this basking shark's fate.

This basking shark's reaction was truly too slow; Ye Yaodong lit a candle for it in his heart.

If it's possible to escape, it's not necessarily doomed, after all, that kind of tonnage is there.

"Then you should have said so earlier. Seeing you talk so much, I thought you were going to wait here, watch it get bitten to death, and then drag it back."

"How could I drag it? That thing weighs several tons; are you going to go down and push its butt?"

"Nonsense."

After Ye Fu glared at him, he hurried to steer the boat.

Ye Yaodong threw the sea lamprey in his hand back into the bucket, only to see it instantly attach to the other side of another fish. Two sea lampreys were sucking on one fish, a pincer attack, making the fish that was already dead become even more shriveled.

He looked up at the sea surface again, looking at the dozens of basking sharks behind him with a face full of regret. If he could really drag one over, the village would be in an uproar; such a large fish is too rare.

As the fishing boat accelerated and headed back, the basking sharks behind continued to follow closely, and Ye Yaodong also picked up and sorted the catch from the last net.

There was a large sea wolf still struggling and swimming there, so he took a stick and knocked it on the head to kill it first, to avoid it being half-dead and biting him back later.

This net of fish had a lot of miscellaneous items, a pile of various fish, shrimp, and crabs. There weren't many sea wolf fish, just one relatively large one, about 20 jin, and the other two were around seven or eight jin.

They really can grow. If this were in the future, an angler could just hang one on the back of their car and drive home.

While he was sorting these fish, he would look up at the stern from time to time. He didn't know why those basking sharks were so determined to follow their boat, trailing behind the whole way.

Just then, the boat that the eldest cousin and the others were working on happened to pass by them. He could see their eyes were wide open and their mouths were hanging open, unable to close.

When the two boats crossed, he heard them shouting his name, and then their fishing boat hurried to veer away.

It wasn't until they were far away that they turned around and followed again. He guessed they were already accelerating to haul in their nets.

At this distance, the diesel engine on the boat was roaring, and even if they shouted at the top of their lungs, he couldn't hear what they were saying. He could only watch silently.

They were probably scared silly just now.

Anyone who saw twenty or thirty fish weighing several tons following a fishing boat would probably be scared to death.

Maybe they noticed the anomaly behind his fishing boat from a distance just now, which is why they took the opportunity to cross paths and see what was going on.

Actually, he was quite...

He even took a few photos...